Far less looting back in 1964....if I remember correctly.
Do you suppose that there might be some sort of correlation there?
Aren’t most of them in jail anyway?
Most people need a whipping nowadays. All these spoilt rich kids with their “afluenza” nonsense.
if we are to take him at his word, which I will for now, Peterson simply though his actions were good discipline, and he did not mean to harm his son...
did he go to far, too harsh, yes of course....
I'm torn on this situation because I think we need all fathers and especially black fathers to become a bit more involved with their kids including and especially discipline...
so I'm not going to pounce on the guy, at least not now....
Hell when I went to school some teachers had paddles…and the Principe might have a razor strap….heaven help you if your old man heard you were bad in school…the problem is there are no men in the house..have not seen the Adrian Peterson video
“...we have to really be careful trying to teach other parents how to discipline their kids.”
Before talking about “discipline” blacks need to start mastering the “parenting” part.
They said the same thing about Michael Vick’s dog fighting. It’s just a “cultural” thing.
Barkley is remembering how it was done 40 years ago, not now. But even then, the marks Peterson left on a four year old were too much. Peterson lost a child to an abusive boyfriend of his baby mamma just a year ago and then he beats his kid? He’s a pathetic excuse for a father
I got the switch and the wooden spoon ... the “cucciara”
Every black family disciplines their children?
Since when? Ha!
Take a look at our society and tell me that makes sense.
Barkley is correct.
Here’s a black family disciplining a black child...
(up front, this isn’t every black family. There are decent black families out there, but folks will know what I am addressing here)
Tyrell, I see here that you were given punishment at school today for stealing the Larry Parnell’s textbook, and then setting it on fire. What do you have to say for yourself young man?
Tyrell, “Well mom, he brought his book to class and made the rest of us look bad. I couldn’t let that fly, so I took it and burned it.”
Okay Tyrell, I just wanted to talk with you and let you know that it was actually a white police officers fault that you did this. It’s centuries of racial hatred that caused you to react like this, and I think it’s important that you be aware of that.
You go outside and play with your gang friends now.
If you spank your kids, it must always be at a time well after the behavior that called for the spanking.
I got a spanking from a teacher once.
Learned me to be more careful when I was trying to get away with things.
Didn’t hurt me a bit.
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
I remember seeing a black neighbor (a woman) who had an electric cord to whip her kids with. My dad had a belt, and after making my mom cry, I got whipped 17 times.
I never forgot it.
Black parents, including parents who aren’t very good by many standards, do try to discipline their children, and they do tend to be extremely harsh. They’re almost always looking at a particular behavior that is annoying to them, however, and not the big picture of how the child interacts with other people, including them; and this is not true only of blacks, but of lower income whites in the South (where I live).
I hear truly nasty abusive stuff coming out of both black and white mouths when I go to WalMart, and while I think the parents may mean well, I’m not surprised that the kids don’t turn out well. In any case, it’s usually a worn out “single mother,” sometimes with a thuggish boyfriend who doesn’t give a darn, so I wouldn’t say there’s any serious parenting going on there.
Both blacks and whites need more moral instruction and more ideas about how to love their children and each other. The churches have totally failed the poor on this.
There’s a difference between spanking and whipping to the point of bloodshed.
People, including a bunch of Freepers, can emote all they want, but there are a couple of irrefutable facts:
This type of discipline was far more common 50 years ago than it is today.
There were far more civilized children growing up 50 years ago.
Today the term ‘feral human’ is understood by most, because we have so many.
I grew up in 1970s
My mom was one that spank my brother and I
We live in SO CAL
You know what Jim Rome he used to be good talk show host not anymore I try listen to him recently he sucks
He still pick on my fellow Raider fans